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US Catholic Revivalism

Dolans work is particularly concerned with looking at Catholic history from a standpoint which does rely solely on a narrow eccles...

Spiritual Development in Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

Spiritual development in European religious orders during the 12th century are discussed in an overview of Historia Calamitatum by...

Collapse of the Byzantium Empire

In seven pages this research paper examines how the Byzantium Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks during the 15th century in a consid...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

Charles Dickens on Childhood

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

In five pages this essay considers what life was like during the Chinese Manchu dynasty of the 18th century as represented in this...

19th Century Changes in Turkey and Egypt

In six pages the changes that took place in Turkey and Egypt during the nineteenth century are discussed. Six sources are cited i...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Gender Issues In the Works of Filene

for both men and women. It was a time where the industrial revolution was in full swing and while men were beginning to work in fa...

1900 to 1921 Foreign Policy of the US

came to be the inciter of "a series of huge blows" (1995, PG) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism as it existed in...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Copernicus and Astronomical Theories

constructions called the eccentric, the epicycle and the equant. In the eccentric, the Earth is placed just outside of the center ...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

Great Britain's Conservative Politics and Democracy from 1911 to the Early 1930s

voting public, there was created a greater sense of fairness, accomplishment and "political vision of liberty."3 However, too man...

Calculus and Sir Isaac Newton

of modern mathematics. The purpose here is to explore Newtons approach to developing calculus. Foundational Work The state...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...

The Introduction of Machinery During the First Industrial Revolution

This paper examines the use of machinery in the production of textiles during the Eighteenth Century. This five page paper has no...

Ivan the Terrible, Oprichnina, and the Secret Police

In ten pages this paper examines Russian Czar Ivan's brutal use of police force in Russia during the 16th century. Ten sources ar...

Middle Ages to the 18th Century Power of Religion in England

this trait remains, the only factor that changes is the person or group of people who are attempting the control of the populace....

US Control and Annexation in Vietnam and the Philippines

In a paper consisting of six pages the efforts to control and annex the Philippines in the early twentieth century and Vietnam dur...

Greek Vase Analysis

In eleven pages this paper discusses the Niobid Painter's 'attic red figure amphora' Greek vase and how such works provide importa...

The Progress of Love by Jean Honore Fragonard

In seven pages this paper examines Fragonard's life and times and considers how he uniquely depicted the rituals of courtship that...

Twenty First Century Business

In a paper consisting of five pages small business growth to maintain pace with changes in technology and conducting business over...

Life of an English Commoner from 1800 to 1850

In ten pages an English commoner's life as it was lived during the first half of the 19th century is considered with original test...

Victorian Literature and Class Consciousness

In 5 pages the Victorian class consciousness that reached a pinnacle during the mid to late 19th century is examined as it is refl...

Irish Home Rule and William Gladstone

In ten pages this paper discusses the relationship that existed between Ireland and Great Britain during the close of the 19th cen...

Racial Oppression and the Black Response

In ten pages this paper discusses American racial oppression and the black response to it during the nineteenth and twentieth cent...